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Philosophy, literature, and the human good

Author: Michael Weston
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Weston
ISBN: 0415243378 9780415243377 0415243386 9780415243384 9780203164464 0203164466
OCLC Number: 45223581
Description: xix, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Life as Art: Kant, Schlegel, Nietzsche --
Georges Bataille: the impossible --
Maurice Blanchot: literature's space --
Jacques Derrida: the staging of deconstruction --
Iris Murdoch: the transcendent good --
Martha Nussbaum: moral fortune --
Richard Rorty: philosophy as literature --
Stanley Cavell: language, therapy and perfectionism --
A Kierkegaardian intervention --
D. Z. Phillips: the mediation of sense --
A concluding reading: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
Responsibility: Michael Weston.
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Preface viii
Introduction ix

1. Life as Art: Kant, Schlegel, Nietzsche 1
2. Georges Bataille: the impossible 19
3. Maurice Blanchot: literature’s space 37
4. Jacques Derrida: the staging of deconstruction 51
5. Iris Murdoch: the transcendent good 69
6. Martha Nussbaum: moral fortune 84
7. Richard Rorty: philosophy as literature 100
8. Stanley Cavell: language, therapy and perfectionism 114
9. A Kierkegaardian intervention 132
10. D.Z. Phillips: the meditation of sense 140
11. A concluding reading: Joseph Conrad’s “Lord Jim” 156

Notes 177
Bibliography 195
Index 197

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